Planting by the Moon: On Life in a Mountain Hamlet

by Peter R. Stillman

Planting by the Moon provides a rollicking yet poignant portrait of rural hardscrabble America. Stillman's perspective on life in a backwater hamlet, as caught in essays and occasional poems, is refreshingly different from other books on rural life. He is the things he writes of-logger, firefighter, horseman, cabin dweller, loiterer at the general store. These writings bring us past romanticized depictions of rural village life to provide...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0867093471
• ISBN13: 9780867093476
• Release Date: February 1995
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 105 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary